Ayelet1
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« on: March 08, 2008, 11:32:02 PM » |
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"Don’t ask in the merit of your good deeds. But rather do the good deeds that you do out of gratitude to Hashem." Wow. We are the ones who benefit from our good deeds. We don't do it for Hashem, but out of gratitude to Him. I really want to train myself more to see Hashem's chessed in everything, and speak about it with my kids too.
This is also something that I need to remind myself more of: "Sometimes we’ll subconsciously think, you know what, Olam HaZeh is also a world. Yeah, Olam HaBa’s what I really want, but Olam HaZeh is also a world. And given our spiritual immaturity we’ll make trade-offs. Olam HaBa with it’s deeper and eternal joy, to Olam HaZeh, with it’s transient joy."
"You can’t tell a fish about how marvelous it is to fly, to be free in the heavens, or to tell a bird what it is to swim in the water, to feel its coolness and the speed of swimming, because a bird would die in the water, and a fish dies where it’s dry. The souls we have are mixed in with our bodies. We can’t picture our souls without that mixture." Wow! I love how Rebbetzin Heller explains things!
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